[Gogar]

They want to search your car because it's more exciting to find drugs or somethng else that it is to write a traffic ticket.

It's important to know your rights at a police stop, but it's also important to realize that if you decide to push it and play, you need to commit and be prepared to be on the side of the road for A LONG TIME.

In your situation, since you were in that adrenaline nervous mode, it's possible you said yes to the search and didn't realize.


One of the "know your rights" suggestions about being pulled out of the car is: When you're asked to exit the car, take your keys out and exit the car, and lock the door behind you. It forces the cop to ask for consent to search again, or to ask the first time if he hasn't already. If he asks you "why did you do that", you tell him it's just habit.